Drug and Alcohol Treatment Worker
Required
A well-established Support Provider based in South Gloucestershire is looking for a Drug and Alcohol Treatment worker to provide support to individuals with complex Alcohol and Substance Misuse issues
Location: South Gloucestershire
Contract duration: 3 months temporary to permanent
Hours: Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm (1 evening a week)
Hourly rate: £14.86 via Umbrella
Vacancy ref number: J67224 / 68437
Day to day responsibilities include:
- Carry out needs and risk assessments enabling service users to reflect on their needs, and identify barriers to their eventual recovery
- Work with people to formulate support plans based on their strengths, needs and aspirations and oversee the brokerage of effective packages of support for clients
- Support the delivery of safe, effective and evidence based clinical and/or specialist interventions (e.g. methadone) through collaborative working with GPs and other parties
- Support and work jointly with GPs within a specific locality to deliver a comprehensive prescribing and detoxification service to users
- Deliver one-to-one and group support using evidence-based techniques such as Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to a caseload of clients
- Ensure that service users maintain regular health checks, including Blood Borne Virus screening where required
- Liaise with the National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Company as required, for service users subject to drug or alcohol treatment orders
- Work in close collaboration with partners internally and externally to support, motivate and maintain the engagement of service users through all stages of their recovery journey
- Promote and support the delivery of a range of flexible activities within the service that will effectively engage/re-engage and retain service users, prevent dropout and maximise successful treatment completions
- To be responsible for providing Needle and Syringe Provision, the supply of naloxone and harm reduction information and advice
Essential criteria include:
- Current enhanced DBS (ideally on the update service)
- Experience of working with service users with Substance Misuse issues
- Access to a vehicle with a full driving licence
To apply for this role or to find out about other Housing jobs, please contact Ashleigh Clarke or Paulo Davis from the Bristol Housing recruitment team on 0117 930 8760 or aclarke@venngroup.com
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